“Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 98 of 313
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
“I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment”
“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.”
“To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.”
“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
“Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.”
“I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.”
“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”
“I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.”
“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”
“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.”
“If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.”
“I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.”
“I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.”
“There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?”
“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice”
“...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.”